Of late, Mount Abu became a Character in my life! It was a pleasure trip planned at the end of mounting pressure from Ebie of not taking her to any of the worthy-to-be-seen places! I was not willing in the beginning as my purse was not as heavy as I thought sufficient to take us happily. But it turned out to be an exciting trip to the only tip of Rajasthan!

You know, sometimes things fall in places like you have dreamed of. It was like such an experience for us, with a last minute planning. Our decision of not booking a hotel online proven to be right, as we got a lovely hotel at a cost we could afford. Hotel Vrindhavan was such a warm place amidst the frozen Abu town. The people were very friendly and helpful.

I noticed that Abu is not such a place like Ooty or any other tourist spot notorious for people cheating. Couple of hundred bucks popped up from my pocket and were about to fall down and one old Abu street-seller just shouted out and alarmed me. Where else could we see it?

Monkeys played pranks, as we had some Peanuts in hand. I just threw the packet in my hand but the Monkey wanted more. I saw that it was staring at Ebie and she was staring back confused. I caught that in a jiffy and threw it again. Ebie stared at me like a monkey-in-trap.

In the nights it was colder than a freezer, and we used almost all the clothes on the first night itself. Bathing; we never thought of it till the third day.

I had seen this Air-gun seller, and bought one, mainly of curiosity and secondly, thinking of gifting it to my father. He would use it to drive-off those wild-cats those come to stay at the rooftop and pee in the nights, or might show it to a robber if ever one lands up, and lie that 'hands up, or it could kill him!'

On return, we had to board our train early in the morning, and we got a taxi booked through Vrindhavan at 5 A.M. We came to Ahmedabad and spent almost 7 hours there before boarding our Volvo for Mumbai. In the meantime, we went to Kakaria Carnival, a famous city-fest there. We went to the Zoo and met all those unlucky animals. What took my attention was the mirror fixed at the Snake-home. 'Enemy of Snakes' it was titled. We saw ourselves in the mirror, and realized that we too never liked snakes around like others. We stopped thinking about it and came out with a heavy-heart.

We reached Mumbai the next day morning, with a mind full of Mount Abu!

I gave an almost-full shave on my face! After long waiting! Not it was to check how better I looked clean-shaven now, (I always knew it looked unlovely) but to love my bearded outlook much more, through a week-long awaiting!

Talking about beards and shaving, no good subjects to talk ? eh?

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